LIBERLIT 2016 PLENARY SPEAKER: TAKAYUKI TATSUMI

Takayuki Tatsumi, Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan), received a PhD from Cornell University in 1987. He is president of the American Literary Society of Japan (2014-) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Continue Reading

THEME FOR 2016: INTERCULTURAL LIMITS AND LIMINALITY

Literature conveys subtle truths universal to the human condition. The best study of literature engenders personal responses in student readers and allows them to achieve moments of epiphany, discovery and personal transformation. Continue Reading

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Plenary Speaker for Liberlit 2015

We are pleased to announce Professor Ira Nadel as this year’s plenary speaker. Ira Nadel, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, studied at Rutgers and Cornell universities. His work and teaching has concentrated on the Victorians and moderns, offering courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Of particular interest… Continue Reading

For Discussion and Defense of the Role of Literary Texts in the English Curriculum

Conference Day February 16, 2015 Meiji Gakuin University Shirokane Campus Call for Papers Theme for 2015: Teaching for Transformation Transformation is an essential part of how education takes place. It facilitates and is testimony to the basic concept of growth in our teaching. For the Sixth Annual Liberlit Conference, we want to focus on the… Continue Reading